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"Obama Is My Slave" Shirt Sparks Lawsuit Threat In New York
When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got dressed that morning, she probably didn't anticipate that her T-shirt would provoke four teensows into shoving her, pulling out her earphones and spitting in her face.
Then again, with a shirt sporting the slogan, "Obama is my slave," it may have been wise to consider the possibility.
Now she's suing the $69 shirt's designer, Apollo Braun, for "all he's got," the designer claims.
But the Israeli-born Braun -- born Dor
on Braunshtein -- says what allegedly happened to his now-disgruntled customer isn't his fault -- and that his outrageous design reflects not his views but those of "ordinary WASPs."
The ugly incident over the ugly shirt took place at 8:30 p.m. in Union Square, Braun told Metro, when four African-American female teenagers accosted the student, cursed at her for her shirt and pushed her. According to the designer, the student walked away, but the girls followed her, one pulling the earphones out of her ears, another spitting in her face.
This isn’t Braun’s first sartorial criticism of the Democratic presidential presumptive nominee. He has also sold shirts with slogans such as “Jews Against Obama,”��”�� “Obama = Hitler”��”�� and “Who Killed Obama?”��”�� — which he claims was so popular, he moved 1,200 pieces.
“I can’t stand Obama,”��”�� Braun says, adding that it’s not because the Illinois senator is black. “That’s the only thing I like about him. He opens the door for other min
orities.”��”��
"Obama Is My Slave" Shirt Sparks Lawsuit Threat In New York
When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got dressed that morning, she probably didn't anticipate that her T-shirt would provoke four teensows into shoving her, pulling out her earphones and spitting in her face.
Then again, with a shirt sporting the slogan, "Obama is my slave," it may have been wise to consider the possibility.
Now she's suing the $69 shirt's designer, Apollo Braun, for "all he's got," the designer claims.
But the Israeli-born Braun -- born Dor
on Braunshtein -- says what allegedly happened to his now-disgruntled customer isn't his fault -- and that his outrageous design reflects not his views but those of "ordinary WASPs."
The ugly incident over the ugly shirt took place at 8:30 p.m. in Union Square, Braun told Metro, when four African-American female teenagers accosted the student, cursed at her for her shirt and pushed her. According to the designer, the student walked away, but the girls followed her, one pulling the earphones out of her ears, another spitting in her face.
This isn’t Braun’s first sartorial criticism of the Democratic presidential presumptive nominee. He has also sold shirts with slogans such as “Jews Against Obama,”��”�� “Obama = Hitler”��”�� and “Who Killed Obama?”��”�� — which he claims was so popular, he moved 1,200 pieces.
“I can’t stand Obama,”��”�� Braun says, adding that it’s not because the Illinois senator is black. “That’s the only thing I like about him. He opens the door for other min
orities.”��”��